COMEDY

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Thank you and Majid for the great photo essay interview....very interesting! I read MPD's play review last night and got interested in this play and the actor.....the guy must have worked very hard to get where he is today.....I am shocked to learn that comedians are shy and have sad lives.....it is unbelievable....

Wow! The guy is on the phone in 12 photos.........this is my favorite photo:
//iranian.com/main/image/113838

Thank you and great job!

FYI/Houshang Touzie and Shahbanou Farah

Nazy jon, sepaasgozaram! ``

The link is great! I sure would do my best. 

Nazy Jan

Thank you. I hope you'll have an enjoyable Sunday eve event.  I'll be mostly absent from the site till August first, due to some "real life" calling.  Have a wonderful summer, my friend.

Cheers,

Azadeh

Anonymouse

اینهم قسمتی از ایمیل هوشنگ برای من که امروز نوشته...........

majid ja'an,

we would like to thank you so much for your kindness and openness ( roohie darvishi !).
pictures are awesome. the whole thing has come up so good. thanks and looking forward to seeing you again.

ba behtarin arezooha,
houshang touzie

Friends,

Dear Azadeh Jan,

Where have you been?!! I'm so glad you are back doostam. Thank you for your kind words. Yekshanbeh shab jaato khali mikonim! Please consider coming to join us at an Iranian.com event sometime. (see below).

Dear Bajenagh and Monda Jan,

Yippeee! I so look forward to seeing you guys on Sunday night! Thanks so much for your support of the artists and of Iranian.com! Together we rock! (not to mention "what a handsome bunch we make!")

Darius, Red Wine, and Anonymouse Jan,

Thank you! We will really miss you guys! Say, (don't tell anyone yet, but) Iranian.com will have a very special artist presentation on October 23, 2010. Do you think you might be able to plan to come and see other Iranian.commers then? Just a thought!

Majid Jan,

Thank you for your great report! I have a feeling you and I will do this again really soon! You are the best Majid!

Very nice, you guys!

I cancelled my vacation on the mountains to see the play.  That is how much I enjoyed Houshang Touzie's answers to Nazy's questions, while Majid went at it with his camera.  Beautiful teamwork, very informative....there was much I didn't know about Houshand and Shohreh, before today.

Majid jaan so those photos were before or during the interview?

I thought the idea of someone conducting a phone interview and another one taking pictures at the same time is a new style and perhaps it can be said that it started at iranian.com!  Perhaps JJJ can patent it!

So having said that when you said when you arrived Houshang was already on the phone does that mean his phone pictures here were before or during the interview or both?

I also liked the picture you took of Houshang looking over i.com on his laptop.  Now that you've become BFF with Houshang, can you ask him to look over this page, register and leave a comment?!  thanks ;-)

Nazy jaan thanks for your kind reply.  I'll have to see that movie again, it's been so long.  Although a 2002 movie called Maryam including plays by none other than Shohreh and Maz Jobrani, playcast here, is about a kid going to high school in 1979 and the aftermath of revolution for her and her family.  I give that movie 4.5 stars!    

Everything is sacred

Thank you Nazy & Majid

Nazy jan: Your interviewing style is excellent. I learnt substantial stuff about Houshang Touzie. Thank you very much. Also, I join Anonymouse in suggesting that you interview Nasim Pedram from SNL. She is very talented and a favourite comedian of mine.

Majid jan: A wonderful photographer is born. Through your photos, I learnt a lot about the personal life of this couple, especially their sense of beauty. Thank you. 

Cheers,

Azadeh 

DK and Red Wine

Reading these comments from you two gentlemen who are God in this arena yourselves is something I'm not taking it lightly!

Be khodam omidvaar shodam..............:-) 

Thank you both. 

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You guys did a good job,one the best colaborations which i saw ... God bless both of you :=) .

Great Interview Nazy Jaan and Majid Great Eye ;0)

Wish I was there. What a great opportunity to see two Great Stars on Stage with such Charisma.

Thanks for Sharing all the best to this exciting Iranian.com Event.

VIVE LE THEATRE !

هوشنگ توزیع، اونجور که من دیدم................

نازی یک ایمیل برای من نوشت که «یکشنبه من میخوام از یک «شخصیت سرشناس ایرانی» تو لس آنجلس چند تا عکس بگیرم.

اوّل من فکر کردم که خود نازی میخواد بیاد اینجا برای اینکار، جواب نوشتم که «بیا نازی جان، ولی مگه غیر از من آدم سرشناس دیگه ئی هم این دور و ورا هست!». بعد قضیه رو برای من توضیح داد که........«من میخوام با هوشنگ توزیع تلفنی مصاحبه کنم و فکر کردم که اگر ممکنه تو بری و ازش عکس بگیری»!

من؟من و عکاسی؟ اونم گرفتن عکس از هوشنگ خان و شهره خانوم؟ عکاس قحطی  بود؟ (ذوق زده شده بودم ها!) گفتم چشم! و بعد ایمیلی نوشت به هر دوی ما و آدرس و شماره تلفن و ............

روز یکشنبه نیمهء اوّل بازی رو دیدم و رفتم ، یکساعتی طول کشید تا برسم، بمحض پارک کردن هوشنگ خودش اومد جلو در حالیکه تلفن دستش بود و بعد از سلام و روبوس مختصری با عذر خواهی گفت که روی یک مکالمهء سه جانبه است و منو به اطاق نشیمن راهنمائی کرد که یکی از دوستانشون داشت تلویزیون تماشا میکرد و از شانس من بازی به وقت اضافه کشیده شده بود، و شهره خانوم اومد و با من دست داد و سلام و علیک و تعارف «چای یا قهوه؟» که من گفتم «فوتبال، خیلی ممنون!»

هوشنگ تلفنش که تموم شد اومد بطرف من و روز از نو و سلام و علیک از نو!

اولین خصوصیتی که از همون لحظهء اوّل دیدن این زوج راجع به منش شون بهت القاء میشه یک کلمه ست.........خاکی!

یه طوری با من برخورد کردن که انگار سالها منو میشناختن!   یه چهل.....چهل و پنج دقیقه ای مونده بود که نازی زنگ بزنه،‌ پس ما شروع کردیم به گپ زدن.

انتظار هوشنگ توزیع روی صحنه رو از هوشنگ توزیع خارج از صحنه نداشته باشین! چشمهاش لاینقطع داره تصویر برداری میکنه گوشهاش داره دائم ضبط میکنه، مغزش مدام داره تجزیه و تحلیل میکنه و همهء اینها در حالیه که مهمانداری برای یک لحظه هم از یادش نمیره!

هوشنگ از اون آدمهاست که فکر میکنم ازلحظهء اول خلقتش همیشه و همزمان در حال یاد گرفتن و یاد دادن هست!  برای همینه کاراش موندگاره!

نازی جان، ممنون که این موقعیت رو برای من پیش آوردی که این زوج رو از دریچه ئی ببینم که برای خیلی ها میسّر نیست!

پانوشت: بعد از این دیدار من خودم شدم یه پا «سِلِبریتی»! اگه ازین ببعد کاری داشتی با منشی م تماس بگیر!

پا پا نوشت! منهم از کامنت های دوستان در مورد خودم متشکّرم

Nazy jan

Thank you for the invite. 

I will be there on Sunday. Maryam jan still not talking to me due to my constant rudeness!  So I'll bring my brother instead.  

I look forward to seeing you on Sunday. :-)

Dear Obamaye Gol!

Thank you so much for your kind comment. I hope Mr. Touzie sees your kind sentiments about him and his family and that he gets in touch with you!

I am not sure about their tour schedule. I went here:

//iranians.kodoom.com/en/houshang-touzie/

and it looks like the San Francisco show is the last one they will be doing for now. Where do you live? Can you make it here by Sunday, July 18th? If not, if you are on the East Coast you might try catching up with him at one of his Fall readings in New York City, as described in the photo essay.

I am sure if you try you can get a hold of him, he is a very approachable and warm man.

Dear Anonymouse

Thank you so much for that all around kind and sweet comment!

Houshang Touzie and I chatted briefly about his 1983 film, Ferestadeh, (The Mission, or Agent from Tehran) and I would like to share some of what we said with you, the ultimate movie buff on the site! I told him how remarkable I found that Parviz Sayyad movie. The film must have been made on a shoestring budget, but it had what probably amounts to the best script, directing, and acting of all Iranian movies made outside Iran for the past 30+ years. It is truly a notable film. He shared how hard those years were, the years of anxiety and confusion and sadness for the newly arrived Iranians in the west, where people were all busy surviving the displacement, the sadness, the poverty, and the uncertainty. The movie came and went through the haze that the Iranian immigrants' psyche was back then, without much notice or appreciation.

Well, it's never too late! I think every Iranian must see that very intelligent and moving film today.

I hope Majid comes and sees your kind comment to him! He is such a good sport! He gave up the World Cup Final to go take the photos, can you believe it? And his photos are absolutely fabulous, I am so grateful to him.

Dear Bajenagh Jan

It's good to see you again! Hey, how about if you take a short vacation and come see the play on Sunday night?!! Bring Maryam Jan, too! What do you say Bajenagh Jan?

Great to see Houshang here, my neighbor 40 years ago!

Thank you Nazy jon! I wish I could see him. Where can i get his tour schedule from? I must see him! We lived in the same house for a few years till they moved out. My family still live in the same house.

Houshang and my brother were real good friends and they haven't seen each other for 40 years. I was friend with his younger brother Amir. Houshang was the most good looking guy in the neighborhood. They were such a wonderful and respectful family.

Real good interviewer, interviewee & photohrapher! 10 all around

Houshang is very talented and I saw him and Shohreh in 90s in a play and they both did real good and the audience (including me) loved them.  He is really amazing and bring theatre to Iranians like no one else.  As impatient as we are somehow we sit through his plays and enjoy our time.  I think it is ALL him and his talent.

Seems like a good time was had by all and Houshang was a very good host.

Nazy jaan you're now getting more and more professional in these interviews!  Who is next?! May I suggest Nasim Pedram from Saturday Night Live?!  I'd have definately suggested Shohreh but thought let's give the couple a break for now. 

Everything is sacred

Nazy Jan

Thank you for the informative interview. Now, I too, know Houshang Touzie a lot more.  Also thank you Majid jan for all those great pictures. I look forward to see more of Mr. Touzie's wonderful work to be produced and offered through different media.